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Announcements in the 1970s and 1980s of the death of kinship and descent as subjects of anthropological study were highly premature. These subjects continue routinely to be encountered in the course of empirical ethnographic research and to be reported upon in ethnographies ? or they are ignored at the peril of ethnographers pathetically unprepared to deal with them. Moreover, considerable... Read more
Introduction -- General Considerations -- Kinship and Descent -- Descent Groups -- Jural Structures I -- Jural Structures II -- Specific Instances -- Patrifiliation Necessary and Sufficient -- Patrifiliation Necessary but Not Sufficient -- Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary I -- Patrifiliation Sufficient but Not Necessary II -- Joint-Family Systems -- Cognatic Descent Groups?
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Harold W Scheffler
